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View articleCrisis looms over the corporate finance departments of accountancy firms after it emerged that deal values have plummeted by nearly two thirds over th...
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View articleGrant Thornton, the fifth biggest accountancy firm according to the Accountancy Age Top 50 has appointed six new partners to its corporate finance pra...
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View articleMore evidence of the dire state of the mergers and acquisitions market appeared this week when KPMG Corporate Finance revealed the total value of glob...
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View articleBig Five firm Ernst & Young is to axe four partners and up to 25 staff from its corporate finance arm following a decline in merger and acquisition ac...
View articleAdministrators at PKF have successfully negotiated the sale of the training division of European Telecom Landis Group to Sphinx CST. Read More...
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View articleCharles Burdick, financial director at cable company Telewest, and three other company directors, have all received substantial bonuses despite the co...
View articleKPMG has topped the Zephus league tables, prepared exclusively for Accountancy Age, for the first quarter of 2002, working on £845m worth of deals, in...
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View articleManagement buyouts, the long-time staple diet of corporate finance arms of the accountancy firms, remain at depressed levels in 2002, figures suggest....
View articleCorporate finance advisers at Ford Campbell have completed the sale of family builders' merchants Joseph Spark & Sons to Travis Perkins in a multi-mil...
View articleThe Hertforshire-based corporate finance specialist Price Bailey has managed to secure the sale of quantity surveyors Hipkins Associates to one of its...
View articleFresh concerns have arisen around accounting for PFI projects after support service company Amey posted an £18.3m loss following changes in accounting...
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